On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 12:05 PM Vladimir Sitnikov <sitnikov.vladi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You are right that payments might help. > Do you consider it to be valid for the case of “getting xalan released”? > > Do you think $100 is a fair amount for motivating the committers? > Frankly speaking, I would not bother for the paperwork when it comes to > *receiving* $100.
You can only ask and find out. There's no such thing as a "fair" price. It's about supply and demand. > Would $3000 motivate the committers enough to get Xalan released? Well, may > be it would be the case. > However, what is the actual effort required to get it released? Run build.sh, > push the resulting zip to the server, send vote email, agree and send an > announcement? If it's that easy, it's far easier than any of the Apache Projects I have personally released in the past. I don't think I've ever been able to release an Apache Project in less than two calendar days, and a week is more common. Maybe Xalan is easier to release, but I wouldn't count on it, especially since it hasn't been released for years and some steps might be broken or undocumented. Xalan is where it is only because Sun, IBM, and perhaps others invested *millions* in paying professional developers market rates to work on it. Now that they've stopped it's no surprise that releases have slowed. Free software is free as in speech, not free as in beer. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elh...@ibiblio.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xalan.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@xalan.apache.org
